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Patrons of Maori culture : power, theory and ideology in the Maori renaissance / Steven Webster.

Title
Patrons of Maori culture : power, theory and ideology in the Maori renaissance / Steven Webster.
Author
Webster, Steven.
Publication
Dunedin, New Zealand : University of Otago Press, 1998.

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Description
275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"These essays form an anthropological study of contemporary Māori culture. The title invokes the wider arena of power, inequality and patronage in which every culture can be understood. ... The Māori Renaissance of the past two decades is considered. The author examines a key paradox underlying the Renaissance- the flowering of Māori culture and influence in the wider society has been matched by social deterioation by most Māori. With reference to the university in society, [the auhtor] asks whether the increasing enrolment, employment and cultural prominence of Māori might be as much a part of the nationalist capitalist 'restructuring' of the market economy as it is a renaissance of Māori culture. This is a challenging set of essays which questions many of the assumptions upon which our present understanding of New Zealand society rest."--Back cover.
Subject
  • Piddington, Ralph > Contributions in ethnology
  • Māori (New Zealand people) > Social life and customs
  • Māori (New Zealand people) > History
  • Ethnology > New Zealand
  • Māori (New Zealand people) > Ethnic identity
  • Ethnology > New Zealand > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Essays
Note
  • "Earlier versions of some of these chapters have been published separately"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-272) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. Culture. 1. Contemporary Maori society and the other side of Maori culture -- 2. Finding Maori culture on Easter Island -- Pt. II. History. 3. Theories of Maoritanga in the 1920s -- 4. Ralph Piddington and the anthropological concept of culture in New Zealand -- 5. Maori Hapuu and their history -- Pt. III. University. 6. Maori studies and the concept of Maori culture 1972-93 -- 7. Marae artworks and the reproduction of Maori ethnicity -- 8. The postmodernisation of Maori culture.
ISBN
1877133485
OCLC
  • 41386132
  • SCSB-11150453
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library